Month: March 2017

Lisa Pfister loves horses. She’s even breeding her mare, who is expected to foal sometime this Spring. Sometime. “The gestation period for a horse is between 320 and 370 days. That 50-day window creates a lot of uncertainty as to when the foal will arrive,” says Pfister. Owners and veterinaria...

It was in her third year of studies at the University of Prince Edward Island that Erin O’Halloran knew she wanted to start a business. “I started writing down an idea per day,” says O’Halloran. “They were mostly thoughts on making existing things better or more fun. I had 70 ideas down on...

Bethany Deshpande says the light-bulb moment behind her Fredericton-based agro-tech start-up happened by accident. Her father, an inventor, was working with a diagnostic tool he had developed, which uses light-scattering technology to provide information about blood samples. He made it a practice to...

In 2015 a friend approached Amir Akbari with a challenge. “He needed help with a client – a municipal waste site, with 25 years of garbage,” explains Akbari. “They wanted to do something with that waste. They wanted to efficiently understand their options related to converting their waste in...

March 23, 2017 Fredericton, NB: The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is pleased to announce the 2017 winners of Breakthru, their biennial start-up competition. The national grand prize winner is Newpy, a social app designed to make product photography more engaging for users and more valua...